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Eirini Zormpa

Doctoral researcher in social sciences with strong quantitative analysis skills and demonstrable experience running and managing research projects. Driven and reliable with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Experience

PhD Candidate

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Nijmegen, NL

2016–2020

In my PhD, I research what people remember from conversations and how that changes as a result of speaking as opposed to listening. My research uses in-person and online behavioural experiments as well as eye-tracking methods.

Graduate Research Assistant

Reading University

Reading, UK

2016

I worked on two projects, one on prospective memory and one on bilingualism. My responsibilities included recruiting and testing participants using EEG and transcribing narratives of Greek-English bilingual children.

Teacher of English

Mingiani-Prevyzi Foreign Language School

Serres, GR

2013-2014

I taught English to primary school children, aged 8 to 12. My responsibilities included developing the curriculum, delivering the classes, creating and grading tests, and communicating with the parents.

Education

University of Reading

MSc in Language Sciences (Awarded distinction)

Reading, UK

2014–2015

  • Completed two independent and one collaborative research project on bilingualism.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

BA in English Language and Literature (1st Class grade)

Thessaloniki, GR

2009–2013

  • Undertook Erasmus exchange at Essen-Duisburg University.
  • Conducted research on the narratives of Greek-Albanian bilingual children.

Selected Posters and Presentations

Communicative intentions influence memory for conversations

Poster presented at the 26th AMLaP conference (online).

Potsdam, DE

Sep 2020

Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm

Answers are remembered better than the questions themselves

Poster presented at the spring EPS meeting (online).

Canterbury, UK

Apr 2020

Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm

Awards & Honours

  • Donders Institute
  • Donders Posters Theme 1 winner (2017)
  • University of Reading
  • Achieving Excellence Bursary Award (2014)

Supervision

  • Wenwen Jin
  • Intern at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Reviewer

  • Memory & Cognition
  • Memory
  • Journal of Open Source Software
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Blog Posts

Volunteering

  • Pint of Science NL - Nijmegen team (2018-2020)
  • Kletskoppen Child Language Festival (2018)
  • Drongo Language Festival (2017)
  • Erasmus Student Network (ESN) - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2012-2014)

References

Naming pictures slowly facilitates memory for their names

Poster presented at the 21st ESCoP meeting.

Tenerife, ES

Sep 2019

Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm

Selected Event Organising Experience

Open Science Community Nijmegen

Co-founder and event organiser of community advocating for open science in Nijmegen. Content creator for the website and newsletter.

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2018–2020

R-Ladies Nijmegen chapter

Co-founder and event organiser of local R-Ladies chapter with 300+ members, promoting gender diversity in the R community.

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2018–2020

Open Access Ambassador Conference

Organiser for 2-day international conference in Berlin, bringing together stakeholders from academia, the public sector, and industry.

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Dec 2019

Selected Teaching Experience

Reproducible analyses in R

Workshop presented at MPI Psycholinguistics

Nijmegen, NL

Jun 2020

Developed a workshop for psycholinguists showing how to use R projects, GitHub, and Binder for reproducible analytical environments.

Key Practices for the Language Scientist

IMPRS Language Sciences

Nijmegen, NL

2020

Co-instructor with Julia Egger on a 6-week course teaching how to conduct transparent, robust, and GDPR-compliant research.

Peer-reviewed Publications

Slow naming of pictures facilitates memory for their names

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26. doi:10.3758/s13423-019-01620-x

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2019

Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm

The production effect and the generation effect improve memory in picture naming

Memory 27. doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1510966

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2019

Eirini Zormpa, Laurel E. Brehm, Renske S. Hoedemaker, & Antje S. Meyer